Sothebys: NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, BINA,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 12, 1966 - July 12, 1966
Page Size: 793 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
499 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

[1910]

 USD - 196.00
500 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

[1910]

 USD - 112.00
501 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) An amusing pencil drawing on House of Commons notepaper by Churchill entitled "The Great Settlement"

Nov. 10. 1921

 USD - 168.00
502 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) The World Crisis

1923-31

 USD - 196.00
503 Churchill (Sir Winston) The British Gazette

USD - 72.80
504 Churchill (Sir Winston) The British Gazette

May 5-13, 1926

 USD - 44.80
505 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) My Early Life

1930

 USD - 117.60
506 Churchill (Sir Winston) My Early Life

USD - 84.00
507 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) INDIA

[1931]

 USD - 168.00
508 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Thoughts and Adventures

1932

 USD - 84.00
509 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) The Chartered Surveyor

[1932]

 USD - 14.00
510 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Marlborough

1933-8

 USD - 72.80
511 Churchill (Sir Winston) Marlborough

1933-38

 USD - 84.00
511A CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) MARLBOROUGH

1933-38

 USD - 266.00
512 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON S.) MARLBOROUGH

1933

 USD - 182.00
512A Churchill (Sir Winston) Great Contemporaries

1937

 USD - 44.80
513 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Arms and the Covenant

1938

 USD - 50.40
514 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Step by Step

1939

 USD - 89.60
515 Churchill (Sir Winston) The World Crisis 1911-1918

1942

 USD - 196.00
516 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) [War Speeches:] Into Battle

USD - 19.60
517 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Onward to Victory

USD - 5.60
518 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) Painting as a Pastime

1948

 USD - 728.00
519 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1948-49

 USD - 392.00
520 Churchill (Sir Winston) A History of the English Speaking Peoples

1956-58

 USD - 14.00
521 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) The Sinews of Peace New York

1965

 USD - 28.00
522 Churchill (Sir Winston) Portrait photograph of Churchill as a young man

USD - 44.80
523 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) PORTRAIT OF CHURCHILL in charcoal and chalk

USD - 420.00
524 Churchill (Sir Winston) A bronze bust of Churchill

USD - 224.00
525 GENERAL STRIKE

USD - 5.60
526 CLEMENS (S. L.) THE INNOCENTS ABROAD Hartford

1869

 USD - 89.60
527 Douglas (Norman) D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus PRESENTATION COPY

1924 [1925]

 USD - 11.20
528 Douglas (Norman) How about Europe? Florence

1929

 USD - 47.60
529 Douglas (Norman) How about Europe 1

1952

 USD - 25.20
530 [DURRELL (LAWRENCE)] BROMO BOMBASTES by Gaffer Peeslake

1933

 USD - 392.00
531 DURRELL (LAWRENCE) THE BLACK BOOK Paris

1938

 USD - 196.00
532 Durrell (Lawrence) Beccafico

1963

 USD - 22.40
533 Durrell (Lawrence) La Descente du Styx

1964

 USD - 14.00
534 Durrell (Lawrence) La Descente du Styx

1964

 USD - 16.80
535 Durrell (Lawrence) La Descente du Styx

1964

 USD - 16.80
536 ELIOT (T. S.) ARA VOS PREC

1919 [1920]

 USD - 154.00
537 [ELIOT (T. S.)] John Hayward, G. C. Faber and F. V. Morley] NOCTES BINANIANAE

1939

 USD - 616.00
538 Kipling (Rudyard) Soldier Tales

1896

 USD - 33.60
539 Kipling (Rudyard) The Seven Seas

1903

 USD - 1.40
539A KIPLING (RUDYARD) WORKS

1937-39

 USD - 1,120.00
540 Macowan (Norman) and Charlton Mann The Blue Lagoon

1920

 USD - 14.00
541 Milne (A. A.) Now we are Six

1927

 USD - 14.00
542 Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner

1828

 USD - 14.00
543 Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner

1928

 USD - 11.20
544 Nicholson (William) Verses written for Nicholson's "Almanac of Sports for 1898" by Rudyard Kipling

1897

 USD - 134.40
545 Nicholson (William) Proof of the coloured woodcut "Coaching" from the "Almanac of Twelve Sports"

USD - 78.40
546 Shaw (G. B.) Misalliance

1914

 USD - 39.20
547 SHAW (G. B.) THE PERFECT WAGNERITE: A commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

1898

 USD - 140.00
548 SHAW (G. B.) THE SIX OF CALAIS: A Medieval War Story by Jean Froissart

1934

 USD - 70.00
549 Shaw (G. B.) Shaw Gives Himself Away

1939

 USD - 98.00
550 Thomas (Edward) Feminine Influence on the Poets

USD - 33.60
551 Vollard (Ambroise) La Politique Coloniale du Pere Ubu Paris

1919

 USD - 8.40
552 WHITMAN (WALT) LEAVES OF GRASS Camden

1876

 USD - 392.00
553 YEATS (W. B.) POEMS

1949

 USD - 266.00
554 Yellow Book (The)

1894-97

 USD - 98.00
555 Yeats (W. B.) Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth

1926

 USD - 112.00
556 Yeats (W. B.) Selected Poems Lyrical and Narrative

1930

 USD - 98.00
557 Yeats (W. B.) The Winding Stair and other Poems

1933

 USD - 112.00
558 Yeats (W. B.) Collected Poems

1934

 USD - 126.00
559 Yeats (W. B.) A Full Moon in March

1935

 USD - 112.00
560 Yeats (W. B.) Essays 1931 to 1936

1937

 USD - 98.00
561 Yeats (W. B.) Last Poems and Two Plays

1939

 USD - 39.20
562 Yeats (W. B.) The Tower

USD - 126.00
563 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Songs of Childhood

1902

 USD - 336.00
564 De la Mare (Walter) Peacock Pie

USD - 28.00
565 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Poems 1901 to 1918

USD - 112.00
566 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 70.00
567 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Draft of his poem To Rose

USD - 154.00
568 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript, with two revisions

USD - 70.00
569 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 89.60
570 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem beginning In vain mine eyes thy beauty scan

USD - 70.00
571 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 182.00
572 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript

USD - 252.00
573 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem beginning Lone must every spirit be

USD - 266.00
574 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Envoy

USD - 78.40
575 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Time Passes

USD - 266.00
576 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 476.00
577 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem hivocation

USD - 182.00
578 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem The Stranger

USD - 182.00
579 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Dust to Dust

USD - 70.00
580 DE LA MARE (WALTER) TWO Autograph Manuscripts of his poem The Blind Boy

USD - 210.00
581 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem The Ghost

USD - 84.00
582 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Life

USD - 84.00
583 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem April Moon

USD - 84.00
584 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Draft

USD - 70.00
585 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Gold

USD - 98.00
586 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem Futility

USD - 70.00
587 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem The Owl

USD - 112.00
588 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem The Spirit of Air

USD - 98.00
589 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Autograph Manuscript of his poem The Captive

USD - 78.40
590 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Drafts of two poems

USD - 280.00
591 DE LA MARE (WALTER)DE LA MARE (WALTER) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF TWELVE VERSE EPITAPHS BY HIMAUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF TWELVE VERSE EPITAPHS BY HIM

USD - 126.00
592 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Drafts

USD - 84.00
593 DE LA MARE (WALTER) Typescripts of fifteen poems by him

USD - 280.00
594 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 50.40
595 DE LA MARE (WALTER) The Autograph Manuscript

USD - 84.00
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
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